1. Album Cover- too few posts lol
2. Artist- Scar Symmetry
3. Album- Holographic Universe
4. Genre- Melodic Death Metal
5. Overall Review- Metal album of the year! Amazing step up from SS's previous albums...Sci-fi themed and sounding....an overwhelming use of clean vocals. this album is brilliant
6. Track Review-
Morphogenesis: Great Album Opener. Fairly simple song structure...clean sung chorus's, growled verse's and a growled bridge. Great guitarmanship and drumming. This song has an AMAZING solo. A great entrance to the rest of the album. the most-radio friendly song on the cd (9/10)
Timewave Zero: The first half of this song is really mellow and melodic...it speeds up in the second half into a death metal FEAST. the song starts off with a great vocal entrance that shows of Christians great singing. not many growls in this song. its still a great song, really well done, but the drums are lacking. (7/10)
Quantumleaper: this is my livewire username, lol! This is the BEST song on the album. really heavy all the way through. a simple structured song...growled verse's, clean sung chorus'...the vocals on the bridge sound like a damn cannibal corpse song. its really well done...and the chorus is catchy. amazing riffing in this song! (10/10)
Artificial Sun Projection: This song starts off with a distorted guitar entrance. very spacey sounding guitars in this song. lots of singing in this song, and a lack of growls which i think this song needed more of. some say this is the most catchy song on the album. i agree. this song has a great solo that turns over into a bridge that is really slow and mellow. (9/10)
The Missing Coordinates: The drumming is the standout point of this track. a simple structured song, but only a few clean parts. the guitars are almost surreal in this song...(7/10)
Ghost Prototype 1 Measurement of thought: WOW! this is my 2nd favorite song. all clean vocals here except for a small entrance to the second verse which is growled. extremely catchty, with tons of prog influences. great vocals that match the flow of the music. the drums on this track are really overwhelming. killer ass solo too. (10/10
Fear Catalyst: This bad boy is heavy.from the start you know this is going be a heavy song. the pre-chorus has really deep growls. the chorus's are clean sung. the guitars are really sci-fi-ish lol. the bridge is slow. fast fucking solo too! its not one of my favorates (7.5/10)
Trapezoid: All clean vocals on this song. sounds like a filler song, but its also really catchy. the solo is pretty lame, which is another reason to believe it shouldnt be on the album (7/10)
Prism and Gate: one of the heavier songs. another sung chorus, growled verse. its nothing too different, but its well done. solo is good, drums are tight. (7/10)
Holographic Universe: 9+ minute epic track. the entrance sounds like something from star wars. a really great track, plenty of different tempos and music. tons of solos...and a really heavy song in genreal. few clean vocals...sci-fi baby! (10/10)
The Three Dimensional Shadow: Heavy, Heavy, Heavy...and filler. this isnt a bad song, but its not really catchy nor does it have any added cheese and pork fat. its an average song. (6/10)
Ghost Prototype 2 Dues Ex Machina: 10 out of fucking 10! this is the most diverse track on this cd. it starts off with a slow clean vocal which shows off Christians range great...then gets heavy...then gets low again..thenheavy...then slow...LOL. what a must-hear track (10/10)
7. Similar Albums- any Mercenary Album...some soilwork
8. Rating- 10/10
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